POL S 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Multiple Citizenship, Clientelism, North American Free Trade Agreement
Document Summary
Examples of political engagement that facilitate the development of transnational citizenship include . Posthumous repatriation of the bodies of deceased migrants to communities of origin. For us migrants from mexico, their transborder ties with both countries have been thickened after the passage of the 1986 irca (immigration reform and control act) which legalized a substantial portion of the undocumented that arrived before 1982. Signing of nafta in 1994 as part of restructuring of global capitalism. Escalated racialized policing of the borders (both international and internal) in the name of securing the homeland after the terrorist attacks in september. Fear of racial persecution has reinforced migrants" transnational attachments, documented or not. Deconstructing transnational citizenship as a double-edged political weapon. For us immigrants from countries with patronage politics that are closely tied to us transnational corporate interests, their practice of transnational citizenship may work as a double-edged sword.
